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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Metro-Wide American Indian Graduation Celebration facilitates conversations between tribal colleges and four-year institutions. UM also has the Office of Native American Affairs, which facilitates communication and consultation with tribal nations to improve UM systemwide to better serve Native communities and learners.

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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Take, for example, the shared data infrastructure work we've been doing for a long time the foundations of data governance where we're partnering with 10 HBCUs to align definitions of higher ed terms and how they're stored in data systems. This allows us to streamline practices for more scalable, more effective solutions.

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Diversity at HBCUs Explored at NCAA Inclusion Forum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That’s not true, said panelists who added that the definition of diversity has to be broadened and expanded beyond the contours of race. “All All Black students are not the same,” said Frank D.

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Inspiring Tech Context

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the dictionary.com definitions of context is “the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.” Dr. Marcus Bright is a scholar and social impact facilitator. . Pretty much everything runs on software nowadays.

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University of Rochester Black Studies Department to Accelerate Cluster-Hiring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We had to find outside funding that would facilitate the expedition of hiring,” he said. And we definitely want to be open to some of the more trans-disciplinary and radically interdisciplinary areas that may not be as salient or evident to us at this present moment."

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A Missing Piece [Peace]: Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This suggestion is reasonable given the common occurrence of faculty in the higher education sector being hired without any prior preparation to teach [facilitate learning]. The visceral response from this faculty participant captivated me; in this moment, I knew there was definitely “a missing piece [peace].”

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What is MEASURE?

Active Minds

My fellow students and I quickly agreed that some of the existing definitions around gender and sexual orientation seemed outdated and needed edits. Having sat in on other advisory groups that didn’t go as well, I was surprised at how seriously Emily, our facilitator, took our suggestions.